Sunday, October 28, 2007

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

B-Movie Film Festival
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5 per movie or $10 for all-day pass
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

1:00 PM: Super-Anon (10 min.)
1:10 PM: The Von (7 min.)
1:17 PM: Tranquil Heights - an existential thriller (6 min.)
1:23 PM: Blood of the Cross (12 min.)
1:35 PM: Speakeasy (14 min.)
1:49 PM: The Order
1:54 PM: Hard Feelings (10 min.)
2:04 PM: Night of the Hell-Hamsters (16 min.)
2:20 PM: Y Que Cumplas Muchos Mas (13 min.)
2:32 PM: Six Bullets (30 min.)
3:00 PM: Big Fish in Middlesex
5:00 PM: Awards Ceremony (120 min.)
7:00 PM: 2007 Winner - Bonus Presentation (90 min.)
8:30 PM: 2007 Short Winner - Bonus Presentation (30 min.)
9:00 PM: Rounding Home (83 min.)
10:23 PM: The Kegger
10:37 PM: Flush (22 min.)
11:00 PM: Lights Camera Dead

Sunday Musicale: Mello Brass Quintet
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Scintillating Schubert
NYS Baroque
Featuring Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano

Price: $20 regular, $15 student/senior
Church of the Saviour
437 James St., Syracuse

The Trout Quintet and other Schubert chamber music

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free (donation requested)
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The jazz vesper service is a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources, representing a wide range of composers as varied as Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, and Stephen Foster, and well-known hymns in jazz settings for all to enjoy, singing if they wish.

Rigoletto
Syracuse Opera

Price: $17 - $155
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A duke's womanizing and a father's quest for revenge leads to a sad end for a pretty young woman. Verdi's opera is set in Italy in the 1500s. Sung in Italian with projected English translation.

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Dinner for Two; A New York Minute; The Box; Tesoro (Treasure)
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Armory Square playhouse will present script-in-hand readings of 4 short new plays in progress by Armory Square Playhouse members Amy Doherty and Donna Stuccio.

The plays are Dinner for Two, a two-scene drama, and A New York Minute, a short sketch, both by Amy Doherty; and The Box, a cop drama, and Tesoro (Treasure), a family portrait, both by Donna Stuccio.

Dinner for Two focuses on an elderly, once-great ballerina now living in a home for retired artists, whose visit from a young woman leads to the unearthing of some long-hidden secrets. In A New York Minute, a voice, seemingly coming out of nowhere, at first startles and then intrigues an out-of-town visitor to New York City.

In The Box, a veteran police detective engages in a battle of wits with a veteran suspect in an interrogation room while investigating a vicious crime. Tesoro explores how long held memories, a recent death, and hidden mementos force a father and his adult daughter to confront the aftermath from the dissolution of their family many years ago.

Amy Doherty holds a BFA in Theater Arts from Drake University, an MLS from Syracuse University, and is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater. She is a member of Gerard Moses' Saturday Workshop. Several of her short plays have previously been given readings by Armory Square Playhouse. She attended a week-long playwriting intensive this spring at Sarah Lawrence College resulting in several new works including the two plays to be presented.

Donna Stuccio is a graduate of Syracuse University's Drama Department and is currently enrolled in the MFA Creative Writing program at Goddard College where her plays Spamarama, The Bloodletting, Heart Burn, and Nice Pants received readings. Her full length plays, Blue Moon and The Job, premiered at Salt City Playhouse. Donna recently was selected to participate in Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre's 3rd Annual 48 Hour Playwriting Marathon where she wrote the short play Heart Burn, which was later reprised at the Redhouse. She teaches playwriting at Manlius Pebble Hill Upper School.

All four plays, as with most Armory Square presentations, are script-in-hand presentations of plays in progress. A talkback discussion with the playwrights follows each reading.

Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein)
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

As the play, written by Barbara Field, adapted from Mary Shelley's novel, begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt -- for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Monster killed out of pique when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant, quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil -- culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?"

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Baby With the Bathwater
Rarely Done Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Playwright Christoper Durang's dark comedy about how difficult it is to be a parent, and how scary it is to be a baby and a child. The play is written in an absurdist, playful style and, for all its darkness, has a hopeful ending. Mature audiences.

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A Man for All Seasons
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25 regular; $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Wit's End Players

Price: $25 adults; $20 seniors/students; $14 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Song, dance, humor, and wisdom highlight this spectacular family musical. With Syracuse's own Bob Brown in the title role, the life of that great entertainer, Will Rogers, unfolds on the Ziegfeld Follies stage. Between rope tricks to entertain the audience while the show girls are changing their costumes, Will soothes us with his old-fashioned common sense and introduces us to his family. The beautiful girls, in stunning costumes, return to entertain as Will takes us on a happy journey through some of America's most patriotic and nostalgic days.

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Improv Workshop Live Performance
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse's first graduating class of the Improv Workshop will perform live for the public. Come support the workshop students as they plunge into their first performance in front of an audience. They need YOU to make it happen!!

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

Read a Review!

Monday, October 29, 2007

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Theater of Blood
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

In this 1973 horror spoof, Vincent Price plays a Shakespearean actor who bumps off his critics.

Cassatt String Quartet
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will feature Mozart's Quartet in C Major, K. 155; Dan Welcher's Harbor Music; and Ravel's Quartet in F Major. A reception will follow in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor.

For more information, email pwmclaug@syr.edu or phone 315-443-9788.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Meltdown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Bernhard Loibner, composer, musician and media artist

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Bernhard Loibner is a composer, musician and media artist based in Vienna, Austria. Meltdown (2007) is a piece for experimental electronic live music and video projection. The performance runs approximately 40 minutes. Meltdown was premiered at the Moving Closer Festival in Warsaw, Poland in June 2007. This will be the first performance in the USA.

The work is inspired by French philosopher Guy Debord, a founding member of the Situationist International (SI) and the title refers to a general collapse of today's social systems and traditional work environments, accompanied by the symbolic meltdown of democracy, public participation in political processes.

The video element of Meltdown includes digitally re-processed and re-synthesized sequences of Debord's original film work from 1975. This cascading reprocessing and synthesis continues techniques Debord used in his own films. He called these techniques "detournement," the recontextualisation of various elements of films, TV, advertising, etc. to create new
combinations and open new insights being formed in these "detourned" elements.

The electronic live music component of Meltdown reflects the textural nature of the visual elements, but is much more than background music for the visuals. The music develops a life of its own and increases the stimulation of the observer in a significant way by creating a dense atmosphere. Sound and video together are more than just the total of its elements.

An Evening with Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A film screening and discussion with filmmaker and producer Keith Beauchamp. Beauchamp will present his award-winning 2005 documentary film The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, an investigation into the 1955 abduction and brutal murder of Till, a 14-year-old African American male, in Mississippi. Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives and allegedly whistled at a white woman in public the day of his murder. The acquittal of the suspects by an all-male, all-white jury and the suspects' subsequent confession and lack of punishment outraged many Americans and helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement. He is the founder of Till Freedom Come Productions, a company devoted to socially significant projects that can both teach and entertain.

On- and off-street parking is available in areas adjacent to The Warehouse. A reception will follow.

For more information, email akiewe@syr.edu or phone 315-443-5132.

Making Space for Art
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Featuring Mary Jane Jacob, curator

Price: Free
Grant Auditorium, College of Law
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mary Jane Jacob is professor and chair of sculpture at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as an independent curator and curator for the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC. Her lecture will discuss her projects that encompass artistic, curatorial, public and community practices. Each has required creating space for artists to conceive and present art, for audiences to respond and reflect, and for communities to imagine change. She strives to advance the parameters of artists' public practices and examine assumptions about the audience for contemporary art.

Considered a nonconformist among U.S. curators, Jacob has organized such innovative exhibitions as "Places with a Past" in Charleston (1991), "Culture in Action" in Chicago (1993), "Conversations at The Castle" in Atlanta (1996) and "Evoking History" in Charleston (2001-present). She recently co-edited "Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art" (University of California Press, 2004) and will have a new anthology, "Slow Art: Becoming an Artist Today," published in 2009. She is a former chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Discounted paid parking is available in the Irving Garage. Visitors should mention that they are attending the lecture to obtain the discounted rate.

For more information, contact Anne Beffel at 315-443-3541 or aebeffel@syr.edu.

Piano at the Panasci -- Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas
LeMoyne College
Featuring Steven Heyman, piano

Price: $15 regular; $10 seniors; students free
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in E Major, Op. 109; Ab Major, Op. 110; and C Minor, Op. 111.

Steven Heyman has appeared in solo recitals, chamber music concerts, and as concerto soloist in major cities of the United States, Canada and Europe. Currently co-chair of the keyboard department at Syracuse University, Mr. Heyman also serves as the Artist-in-Residence at Colgate University and Visiting Professor at Shenyang Conservatory of Music in China. At Colgate, he recently performed the complete Beethoven Violin/Piano Sonata cycle with colleague Laura Klugherz. Mr. Heyman frequently performs with his wife Amy, a pianist, in both four hand and two piano concerts.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

Read a Review!

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Timothy Schmidt, guitar

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music of Bach, Sor, Barrios, and Lauro.

Lunchtime Lecture
Redhouse
Featuring David Hayes, sculptor

Price: Free (bring a brownbag lunch)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Sculptor David Hayes, whose 16 large sculptures are on display in Syracuse for a year-long exhibition, will talk about his artwork and public art process. Sites for his sculptures in Syracuse include The Everson Museum, Columbus Circle, the MOST, the park adjacent to Redhouse on West Fayette and Walton Streets, and City Hall Commons.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

Read a Review!

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

Read a Review!

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Cosmology: Works by Alan Singer
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Alan Singer utilizes traditional painting and drawing techniques combined with high-tech digital tools and printmaking techniques to create his abstract environments. William Zimmer, New York Times' art critic, commented that "Singer's art has the refreshing jauntiness found in the pioneering American abstractionists."

Alan Singer says: "My subjects are derived from visual and physical phenomena related to space (in the geometric sense), and our human interactions with nature. I think about how our environment interweaves things we can see and things which we can only feel, like the wind. I am very conscious of the elements in our natural world and the forces that are exerted on us, and how we adapt. I try to open my art to representations of physical and social forces that may draw upon literary, scientific or mathematical resources. Patterns in my painting find correlations to the textures and rhythms of music, dance, textile arts and more."

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Best of Fest
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Special selection of films from the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival presented by Director of SIFVF, Owen Shapiro.

Ethnic Music by Simple Gifts
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Simple Gifts demonstrates and explains the wide variety of instruments and styles they play and introduces the audience to the stylist differences of genres such as Romanian, Klezmer, Greek, Irish, Appalachian, and Swedish music.

Paquito d'Rivera
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: $20 general public; $10 SU faculty, staff and alumni; $10 CNY Jazz members; $5 SU students with ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A child prodigy on both saxophone and clarinet, Grammy-winning Cuban saxophonist Paquito D'’Rivera performed with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra and founded Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna and innovative music ensemble Irakere. An acclaimed solo artist with a discography of more than 30 albums, he is also an accomplished composer.

D'Rivera will perform with Oscar Stagnaro (bass), Mark Wagner (drums), Alex Brown (piano) and Diego Urcola (trumpet). D'Rivera will premier his new work, "Borat in Syracuse," which was commissioned by the Syracuse Symposium and Pulse specifically for this occasion. SU student members of the Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble will also perform a number of songs, including D'Rivera's alternate arrangement of "Borat in Syracuse" under the baton of Joe Riposo. D'Rivera, who offered to arrange his new work specifically for SU's student musicians, will be a featured soloist.

Spark Contemporary Art Space
Mount Eerie + Privacy

Price: $6
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Death Joins the Club
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive dinner theater murder mystery.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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Translations
LeMoyne College
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brian Friel's haunting lyrical play is about language as the soul of a nation. Set at the time of British mapping of Ireland in the early 19th century, Translations depicts the ways in which language encompasses both cultural and communicative meanings. Friel emphasizes tensions between the movement towards modernization, and the importance of maintaining cultural tradition.

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Thruway Diaries
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $10 general public; $5 with student ID
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A 3-act play written and directed by Samuel L. Kelley, about a black family traveling south faced with racial profiling.

Friday, November 2, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
The Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Over 30 members will exhibit and sell quality ceramic wares, plus works in glass, painting, sculpture, paper, fiber, wood, and other arts.

The Friday evening reception will feature a performance by local jazz artist Marcia Rutledge.

Math for Poets and Drummers
Onondaga Community College
Simple Gifts

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Math and music have long been linked. The ancient Greeks discovered a mystical correspondence between musical intervals with a pleasing sound and ratios of whole numbers. Learn about the connections between the mathematics of poetry and musical rhythm.

Guitar Foundation of America Performance
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist to be announced: Winner of the Guitar Foundation of America's Annual International Solo Guitar Competition.

Simple Gifts
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Three women plus twelve instruments equals one good time when Simple Gifts takes the stage. Drawing on an impressive variety of ethnic folk styles, this award-winning trio plays everything from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving Klezmer frailachs and haunting Gypsy melodies, spicing the mix with the distinctive rhythms of Balkan dance music, the lush sounds of Scandinavian twin fiddling, and original compositions written in a traditional style. Funded by a grant from the NYS Music Fund.

Folkus Project
Jonathan Byrd

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Eclectic, substantive songs, rich with contemporary imagery and textures yet rooted in tradition.

The Best of Music Mavericks
Redhouse
Featuring Lisa Gentile, singer-songwriter

Price: $10 (proceeds to benefit Music Heals CNY)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This is the first concert of what will be a quarterly series showcasing regular performers from Music Mavericks open mic nights, which take place on Wednesday evenings at the Coffee Pavilion. The weekly format fosters musicians and songwriters of all genres to explore new material, sharpen their performance skills, collaborate, network and cultivate musical relationships.

The concept of Music Mavericks was created by Bloom Projects, of which Gentile is a co-founder. The show will be produced by this creative project management company and will benefit its non-profit endeavor, Music Heals CNY, which Gentile is heading up. The goal of Music Heals CNY is to raise awareness of the healing power of music through bedside performances for patients and their families in health care facilities across Central New York. The organization will also produce benefit concerts to raise money for those lacking the funds to receive imperative medical treatment.

Lisa is a Syracuse native and national recording artist who recently returned to her roots after living and performing in NYC for many years. She has recorded with many well-known producers and has performed in venues throughout the country. Lisa has released three CDs, her latest of which just won a SAMMY Award for Best Country Recording.

Classics Series: Rodeo
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Andre Raphel Smith, conductor
Featuring Lianne Coble, soprano

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Barber Symphony No. 1
Copland Ballet Music from Rodeo
Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Poulenc Gloria

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Short-Fiction Author Jennifer Pashley
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jennifer Pashley is a fiction instructor at the DWC, and an adjunct professor of English at LeMoyne College. Her first collection of stories, States, was published in summer 2007 by Lewis Clark Press. She was recently awarded the Red Hen Short Fiction Award for her story "States"; other stories have been published in Two Rivers Review and Mississippi Review.

Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein)
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

As the play, written by Barbara Field, adapted from Mary Shelley's novel, begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt -- for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Monster killed out of pique when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant, quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil -- culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?"

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Translations
LeMoyne College
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brian Friel's haunting lyrical play is about language as the soul of a nation. Set at the time of British mapping of Ireland in the early 19th century, Translations depicts the ways in which language encompasses both cultural and communicative meanings. Friel emphasizes tensions between the movement towards modernization, and the importance of maintaining cultural tradition.

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Thruway Diaries
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $10 general public; $5 with student ID
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A 3-act play written and directed by Samuel L. Kelley, about a black family traveling south faced with racial profiling.

Baby With the Bathwater
Rarely Done Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Playwright Christoper Durang's dark comedy about how difficult it is to be a parent, and how scary it is to be a baby and a child. The play is written in an absurdist, playful style and, for all its darkness, has a hopeful ending. Mature audiences.

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Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

Read a Review!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
The Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Over 30 members will exhibit and sell quality ceramic wares, plus works in glass, painting, sculpture, paper, fiber, wood, and other arts.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

Artist Reception and Panel Discussion
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Discussion in conjunction with the exhibits "Gullah Lifestyles" and "Confederate Currency."

(Re)envisioning Life as an Artist
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Five artists from Under One Roof Reprise will share with audience members the path through which they came to be artists. Some topics of discussion will include the impact of family, art education experience and exposure to art and artists. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about the real-life challenges and successes related to living an artistic life. High school and college students are encouraged to attend.

Sixth Annual Invitational Women's Choir Festival
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The invited choir for the festival is the Homer High School Women's Choir under the direction of Cara K-B McLaughlin. Marian Dolan of Naples, FL, is guest conductor. Internationally known for her multicultural master classes, Dolan will conduct "Kyrie" from Glenn McClure's Caribbean Mass. McClure, the festival's composer-in-residence, will play steel drum for the performance with additional percussion by faculty member Joshua Dekaney.

The public concert will feature the participating choirs individually and a combined choir of more than 100 singers. Concert repertoire will include selections by Stephen Paulus, Ruth Watson Henderson, Moses Hogan and Harri Wessman.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact Barbara Tagg at 315-443-5750 or btagg@syr.edu.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Brentano Quartet

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Monteverdi Set of Madrigals
J.S. Bach Contrapunctus of the Art of the Fugue
Haydn Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No. 5
Beethoven Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127

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Classics Series: Rodeo
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Andre Raphel Smith, conductor
Featuring Lianne Coble, soprano

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Barber Symphony No. 1
Copland Ballet Music from Rodeo
Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Poulenc Gloria

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Stone Canoe Reading Series
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Phil Memmer

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Legend of the Banana Kid
Open Hand Theater
Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers

Price: $8 adults; $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Little Chucky outsmarts the thugs and brings justice back to town, using bananas as his weapon of choice. Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers of Bar Harbor, ME and their cast of over 20 puppets encounter all kinds of wild Western fun.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive version of the children's classic.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein)
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

As the play, written by Barbara Field, adapted from Mary Shelley's novel, begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt -- for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Monster killed out of pique when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant, quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil -- culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?"

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Translations
LeMoyne College
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brian Friel's haunting lyrical play is about language as the soul of a nation. Set at the time of British mapping of Ireland in the early 19th century, Translations depicts the ways in which language encompasses both cultural and communicative meanings. Friel emphasizes tensions between the movement towards modernization, and the importance of maintaining cultural tradition.

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Baby With the Bathwater
Rarely Done Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Playwright Christoper Durang's dark comedy about how difficult it is to be a parent, and how scary it is to be a baby and a child. The play is written in an absurdist, playful style and, for all its darkness, has a hopeful ending. Mature audiences.

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Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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Sunday, November 4, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
The Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Over 30 members will exhibit and sell quality ceramic wares, plus works in glass, painting, sculpture, paper, fiber, wood, and other arts.

The September Trio
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Classic Broadway tunes from the musicals for soprano, baritone and piano.

Central New York Jazz Composer's Cooperative
Jerry Bower, percussion; Cookie Coogan, vocals; Bill DiCosimo, piano; Kevin Dorsey, bass

Price: $10 regular; $7 donors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Brahms, Beethoven, & Beloved Encores
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin; Andrew Russo, piano

Price: $15 regular, students free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brahms Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in D minor, op. 108
Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major, op. 30, no. 1
and beloved encores by Brahms, William Bolcom, George Gerhwin (arr Heifetz), Fritz Kreisler, Astor Piazzolla, Paul Schoenfield, and others.

NAMI-Promise Fundraiser Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Kevin Moore, piano

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Anton Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 4 (1st movement)
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture
plus special solo performances

For more information, contact NAMI-Promise, 315-487-2085 or nami-promise@nami-promise.org.

Rising Star Organ Recital
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Bradley Fitch, organ

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will include music by Butxehude, Bach, Brahms, Petr Eben, and Maurice Duruflé.

Fitch, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, is enrolled in the doctor of music arts program at the University of Oklahoma, where he is studying under John Schwandt. At the university, Fitch is actively involved in teaching, organ maintenance and the restoration of a Möller op. 5819 organ, which will be installed in a building on the campus. He also serves as organist for McFarlin United Methodist Church in Norman, Okla. Fitch received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Indiana University.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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